About Full-Care™

Rest Assured with Full-Care™Premium Hot Melt Adhesives

This range of high performance adhesives has been perfected to enable our customers to achieve two important objectives; maximising the benefits generated by a close technical partnership and improving the satisfaction of their customersʼ experience with their product. Whether you are manufacturing Baby Diapers, Adult Incontinence, Feminine Hygiene or other nonwoven solutions you can rely on the performance of Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives.

Our established and successful involvement in the global nonwovens market has given us the experience and knowledge to develop an innovative range of hot melt adhesives that provide robust solutions for our customers, allowing them to rest assured. Robust in terms of adhesive performance. Robust in terms of supply flexibility. Robust in terms of technical support, delivered through generating a close technical collaboration. Robust Full-Care™ solutions offering the functional benefit of helping to lower in-use cost.

Full-Care™ Product Range

Construction
The range of Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives for construction applications are formulated to deliver consistent performance, both on the machine and on the final product.

High performance range of adhesives formulated using the full portfolio of technologies for enhanced supply flexibility

Core
As the market-leader in adhesives for thinner cores, we have used our experience and technical know-how to develop Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives that provide enhanced core integrity for thinner diapers.

Lower cost in use
- Diapers will be thinner with improved integrity and can offer cost savings

Positioning
Continuous innovation in the end-use product ranging from ultra-thin and modified shapes to biodegradable materials require high performance adhesive technology to deliver the desired functionality to the consumer. The Full-Care™ range of hot melt adhesives for positioning delivers versatile high performance enabling the continuous development of the end-use product.

High peel positioning performance for all back sheets and application methods
- Performance maintained on both PE and NW back sheets whether applied by transfer slot or direct spray.

Elastic
The range of Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives for elastic attachment are designed to meet the challenges of this demanding application, providing consistent performance during manufacturing and bond security in use.

No side leakage – Provides excellent protection when applied as strip-barrier around the core

Keeps the user drier – Moisture is quickly pulled away from the skin to the outer layers of the device

No mess – Eliminates the handling of dusty powdered SAP

Hydralert™ Wetness Indicating Hot Melt
H.B. Fullerʼs Hydralert™ Hot Melt gives you FAST and DISTINCT colour change performance at the time of wetness. This innovative new product has all the critical performance and cost management elements you demand in a wetness indicator application.Key Benefits

High humidity resistance virtually eliminates premature colour change

Improved thermal stability with good machining as compared to competitive wetness indicators

Distinct colour happens immediately in response to wetness and is a definitive visual change that lasts

Full-Hook™ Adhesives
The Full-Hook™ family of adhesives is designed to deliver superior performance and value in hook and loop fastening systems. Full-Hook™ adhesives enable manufacturers to gain total control of tab assembly and reduce manufacturing costs.Key Benefits

Product performance advantages include superior shear performance, with no need for ultra-sonic welding, result is a strong bond that is soft and flexible

Cost reductions can result from two alternative uses of the Full Hook™ technology:
1. by eliminating the extra step of off-line converting or
2. by reducing coat weights when using Full Hook™ adhesives in on-line processes

Get the Full-Care™ Advantage

Whether you manufacture baby diapers, adult products, or feminine care products, you can rely on Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives to deliver reliable, quality product consistently. But our promise of Full-Care™ goes beyond just the products. With over 30 years of experience, our dedicated team keeps you in focus every step of the way, in everything that we do as we strive to keep you rest assured.

Economic Care

Positive impact on production efficiencies and adhesive mileage
All Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives are uniquely formulated to deliver the desired performance. Excellent thermal stability is a minimum standard, and the performance of Full-Care™ hot melt adhesives goes much further than this.

Production efficiencies are positively impacted by the correct balance of adhesive properties to ensure clean running, with the goal of eliminating adhesive related downtime. Bond strength performance is optimised to facilitate the use of thinner, lower cost materials or to simply reduce the amount of adhesive applied.

Technical Care

Close collaboration with technical specialists to deliver the full value
High quality technical support is an important part of the service a customer receives from H.B. Fuller. In each global region, we have a team of knowledgeable technical experts who ensure our customers optimise the value gained from using our Full-Care™ adhesive.

In our Research and Development centres, we have state of the art equipment where we research, innovate and then perfect our hot melt adhesives to meet the dynamic challenges faced in the nonwoven hygienic market. Tailored development projects with customers are one of our specialities!

We enlist our technical know-how and performance modelling techniques to develop the adhesive to meet your needs. Our customers can rest assured that Full-Care™ adhesive will enable the performance needed from the start; crucial for maintaining production output and efficiency.

Our in-house coating capabilities allow us to simulate many application processes such as slot, spiral or spray to produce a variety of constructions between nonwoven, polyethylene and elastic substrates. The performance of the adhesive in the various constructions is then subjected to the rigours of our unique performance testing, ensuring all new products have their performance fine-tuned before being presented to the customer.

Supply Care

Full portfolio of technologies including polyolefin for enhanced supply flexibility
Over the past few years, we have all experienced the pain caused by the global tightness in the supply of adhesive raw materials. Customer supply continuity is our top priority.

Our Full-Care™ hot melt adhesive formulations use polymers derived from both crude oil and natural gas. Our market leading range of Full-Care™ adhesives has been developed using all the alternate technology bases, including H.B. Fullerʼs market leading 3rd generation olefin technology, so providing enhanced supply flexibility for our customers.

Our long history in formulating with a broad technology base enables us to be proactive in times of supply challenges; quickly sourcing proven alternatives to provide our customers with a supply solution and avoid any downtime.

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Markets and Applications - Whether your market is in packaging, building & construction, paper converting, woodworking, general assembly, personal hygiene, graphic arts, automotive, solar or the dozens of other industries we serve, we are dedicated to formulating innovative industrial adhesives, sealants, coatings and specialty materials that help you succeed.

For 0ver 125 years, H.B. Fuller has been a leading global industrial adhesives manufacturer. Through our shared vision, strong leadership and spirit of collaboration, we consistently deliver adhesive technology that gives rise to your cutting-edge innovations and enhanced products. We apply our knowledge, experience and ingenuity to creating smarter products that help you go the distance with your projects. Thinking differently and partnering to solve our customers’ toughest problems is H.B. Fuller’s passion. Our comprehensive adhesive technology portfolio helps improve wide-ranging production processes from closing a carton to facilitating high tech solar panel manufacturing.

H.B. Fuller’s enduring pledge to serve the community as a responsible corporate citizen is a great source of pride. We recognize the world’s finite resources require us to minimize our impact on the environment while simultaneously creating value for our customers. As such, we maintain a strong focus on optimizing our facilities for efficient operations and engaging our employees to be knowledgeable about and responsible for safety, wellness, and reaching sustainability targets.

Moreover, in recognition of our long-standing commitment to promoting responsible, ethical business practices, H.B. Fuller has earned the coveted Ethics Inside® Certification from the Ethisphere Institute. As a leading global industrial adhesives manufacturer, H.B. Fuller is focused on perfecting state-of-the-art adhesives, sealants and other specialty chemicals with best-in-class practices that improve the quality of our products and the lives of those who put them to use.

Enhance your projects today with our world-class adhesive products and discover why we are a leader in global industrial adhesives with an unwavering commitment to our customers’ success.